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View Poll Results: 1% of the world's richest control most of the wealth, politics, media. Is it moral?

Re: A Q about morality

Okay, here's the thing. Capitalism gives every individual a reason to work hard in hopes that one day they might, in some wild dream, become the 1% or at least be fabulously wealthy. This is why capitalism works, it motivates people to get up and do something. Someone who's unbelievably poor and basically living in hell might one day get tired of that and go out to do something. This is why you never give out unemployment.

Democratic socialism does not work because it seeks to level the playing field. For some reason everyone believes that they can be a slave owner; but if everyone is a slave owner, then who will be the slaves? (Sorry, I keep forgetting, they call them "employees" now, silly me)

Communism doesn't work because it removes the motivation to get up and work harder. If everyone gets the same amount of money whether they work hard or not, then everyone will do the minimum and the system collapses rapidly.

To someone in the lower and middle class, the 1% seem like monsters out to destroy everything. The real reason people don't like the 1% is because they're the only ones that aren't slaves...I mean employees. What needs to be realized is that they're the ones that mak this world go 'round. Without them it would be over very quickly, so on a moral standpoint, yeah, I'd say they're great.

Re: A Q about morality

Originally Posted by Shinobi Train

Okay, here's the thing. Capitalism gives every individual a reason to work hard in hopes that one day they might, in some wild dream, become the 1% or at least be fabulously wealthy. This is why capitalism works, it motivates people to get up and do something. Someone who's unbelievably poor and basically living in hell might one day get tired of that and go out to do something. This is why you never give out unemployment.

Democratic socialism does not work because it seeks to level the playing field. For some reason everyone believes that they can be a slave owner; but if everyone is a slave owner, then who will be the slaves? (Sorry, I keep forgetting, they call them "employees" now, silly me)

Communism doesn't work because it removes the motivation to get up and work harder. If everyone gets the same amount of money whether they work hard or not, then everyone will do the minimum and the system collapses rapidly.

To someone in the lower and middle class, the 1% seem like monsters out to destroy everything. The real reason people don't like the 1% is because they're the only ones that aren't slaves...I mean employees. What needs to be realized is that they're the ones that mak this world go 'round. Without them it would be over very quickly, so on a moral standpoint, yeah, I'd say they're great.

Re: A Q about morality

Originally Posted by ShishaMastah420

+Rep dude!

Wow... Supposedly i can't +Rep you but ok...

Everything you said, i agree with!

Originally Posted by ShishaMastah420

Uhmmm... DaFuQ? Hell No...

What you and OP don't seem to understand is that the "99ers" have more power than the "1%"... You can have all the money in the world you want, but there needs to be wheels that can drive your wealth, the "99ers" are that wheel...

If only the "99ers" would educate themselves on how to exercise their power instead of being drones...

If this whole thing is about helping others; Why not argue that the police use the money that is confiscated from drug bust and donate it to the less fortunate; Why force the fortunate to help the less fortunate?

Sorry, you basically already said it. If we can't rep each other, then a high five will do: